The first half an hour of the film is so crucial. It's sweet, sentimental, heartwarming. It displays the dynamics of the family so clearly and the strong connection and community they've found in each other. It's relatively tension free, giving the family a sense of freedom and carelessness, bar the military barricade scene which gives a taste of the brutality to come. This is all so important as it makes the rest of the film matter even more, because we…
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Civil War 2024
A divisive film apparently, I certainly fall on the positive side. It's a war film that that doesn't focus on war, it looks at it through the lens of journalism, which is always an interesting perspective.
I adore the fact that we never really learn what is going on. We don't know who either side is, or what they're fighting for. The violence feels pointless and inconsequential. In a way that kind of sums up how conflicts like this are…
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The Monkey 2025
Can't lie I was really disappointed with this. Osgood Perkins directing a Stephen King story under the guidance of James Wan seems like a match made in heaven but this just did not hit for me. Longlegs was one of my absolute favourite releases of 2024 so I was hoping this would have a similar vibe, but this comes out more comedy than horror, intentionally of course. And it is pretty funny in fairness. The kills are great and some…
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